The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-22
THROUGH THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
$40 SOL and Vicinity.

Accidents and Incidents fn Test Virginin
sI'd f5. and Vicinity. III,
There ars at present eight military com.
panies in this State. "a. y
A negro named Sam Patton Ia wanted
by Hinton authori.ieu. Ho is suspected
ofbeing the Ere.bug who has been firing
houaes in that place. d
The Writ Transcript hes been aold by
! M. NJ. Rockhold to joint stock company
composed Of the sturdy, atifT.backed De-
mocracy OF that county. III
The .ecsnt drought in Nicholas cornty
dried up nearly every stream, including
the large ones. The result is hundreds q
dead fish were left to 70. along the banks.
Adolph Heehle, 3 Parke.sburg florist,
has been elected V;cs.P President of the
American Floris,s' Society Tor Weat Viz.
gin;s.
The destruction Of the Marietta Oil
Works at Harmar lGst Friday night by Gre
is supposed to have been tho resuls Of
come ineendisry's lehdieh cot. Tie loes
was 81 500. lf-=.5T.
The Georges Greek and Cumberland
Railroad hsvo added 10 their co uipment
two hundred SOton hoppsrs, and the
West Virginia Central LGvs ordered forty
Of the same kind. fS-p!s4 .II,j.t
Captain John Tico's canal bost stirred
up the body Of drowned man In the
canal near shepherdatown last week. The
man proved to DO HI umbrella member
from Baltimore, who had fallen into the
canal while intoxicated and WIGS drowned.
Rev. Matt s. Hushes. formerly city
editor Of the Psrkersburg State Journal,
and well known here, has since his coa.
version at Lovelaud, near Cincinnati, I'M.
der Rev. Sam Smsl!'s msoisttatiors, de-
veloped into tull.Asdged preacher, and
Is preaching rs an assistant to Rev.
Waiter Mari, on tho Grlnnell Circuit,
Iowa. I~I''
Mics Mollie jackson, young daughter
Of George jackson, Of Fairront, willis in
a somnnmbulistic state, one night recently.
raioed the sash OF window ia her room
in the second story Of her fathers resi-
dsnce and stepped cat, falling to the
ground, distance Of about fifteen feet.
She was badly jared and greatly Brighten.
ed, but fortunately received no serious
injuries. s4.F1 i 5,iiYs 81
A Mr.. Wood, OF st. Adams, received a
telegram from Martinsburg, Kentucky,
from HIS son, asking him 10 como at onca
and identity him, aa he has been arrested
Tor murder. The murderer'G name was Nc.
Farland, and looked like young Wood.
This csuned the latter's arrest on susp;.
cion, and the citirsns were talking Of
lynching him. Mr.. Wood and his dauph.
ter lef. for the scene Of action st once.
TIP he!rp Of ssayles, who vas killed nv
the railroad accident on the kancgbs K
Ohio, then tho Ohio Central, in 1885, at
Ten Mile creek, Mason county, have
brought suit against the road for SIC, 600.
Tho accident waa caused by n car jumping
the track, and falling into the back water.
drowning searles. There were several
others on the train, who escaped. He
was the only man ever killed on that road.
Some months ago the Euresa detectives
Of UharIeston we're notified tha. negro
named William Jefferson was charged
with having committed rape in Mont.
gomery county, Virginia, and had fed TO
this stnte. They tracked him to Hunting.
ton Whefe he Was arrested by Detective
Mitchell, turned over to Capt. q. ",
Baldwin aud is now jailed at Charleston,
awaiting the coming Of tequisition.
John Woode, a Saginaw City barber. |
with eisht others Of his family, vpa sold
as slave thirty.si1 yesra ago Id Virginia,
Each was bought BY a separate person,
and they were taken to bondage in dit.
terent DIRECTIONS. Since that time John !
has heard nothing Of ills mother until re-.
csntly, when ho learned in an indirect
manner that she was still living ct clinton;
thi0 State. He intends coming this way
to hunt the old lady ur.
The Ensign Car and Car Wheel Manu-.
featuring Company at Huntington, have |
commenced the erection OF en- additional |
building l0Oxl0S feet, which will be uBed,es
shop, the present one, owing to
tho rapid growth Of bEsiaela, not being
large. At present eleven cans
are turned out complete every day, but
orders are coming in 80 rapidly that Il Ia
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